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Methane releases in arctic seas could wreak devastation

Methanotrophs like the ones pictured here might be able to prevent a massive "burp" of methane from the Arctic Ocean. LANL image.

Seafloor sediments beneath the Kara, Barents and East Siberian seas in the Arctic Ocean, as well as the Sea of Okhotsk and the Barents Sea in the North Pacific, have large reservoirs of the planet-warming greenhouse gas, says study coauthor Scott M. Elliott, a marine biogeochemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. (Full Story)


Green scum of the earth is redeemed

Microscopic image of green algae.

Los Alamos biofuels program lead and NAABB executive director, Jose Olivares, says the group is targeting technologies from start to finish - from logistics, to feedstock preparation, to conversion and, finally, to distribution.

Algae can be modified to produce high-value chemicals, Olivares explains. Some algae produce molecules called keratinoids that are chemical products used in foods and dyes. The feeding and care of algae is one of the most interesting areas of this research. (Full Story)



Ribbon at edge of solar system

An image of the pressure exerted on the heliosphere by the interstellar medium it passes through. LANL image.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Las Alamos, New Mexico have discovered a ribbon of solar material collected at the very edge of the solar system.

The High Energy Neutral Atom Imager on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has returned data showing the buildup of solar material at the very edge of the heliosphere. (Full Story)



Radioactive material removed from closed NYC hospital unit

Watch a YouTube movie about LANL's source recovery program

The NNSA is a little-publicized unit assigned to secure nuclear materials and prevent smuggling. It has a special global response team that can travel around the world when possible smuggling of nuclear materials is detected. NOTE: The offsite source recovery program is operated out of Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Full Story)



Lab excavates World War II-era landfill

News In Brief -- Los Alamos National Laboratory is excavating a six-acre landfill that lab legend says could even contain an entire truck used at the world's first test of an atomic bomb at southern New Mexico's Trinity Site in July 1945. (Full Story)


Explore World War II history at Los Alamos museum

The Bradbury Science Museum. LANL photo.

History was changed by what went on in Los Alamos, a town whose existence wasn't acknowledged during World War II while scientists and thousands of support workers developed the bombs that were eventually dropped on Japan. (Full Story)



Biomagnetics and Los Alamos National Security, LLC sign CRADA

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp. today announced the signing of a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the development of a waveguide-based integrated optical biosensor platform for the detection of disease causing pathogens. (Full Story)



Pancakes on the plaza

Mark Shepard, a first-year volunteer with Los Alamos National Laboratory, flips pancakes on the plaza in Santa Fe, N.M., on July 4, 2010. (See the photo album here)




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